tour
/tɔː(ɹ)/noun, verb
tour is spelled T-O-U-R: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 98 times per million words in written English, the 1,112th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tour means “A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tour is tours.
How many letters and syllables are in tour?
| Letters | 4: T-O-U-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 98 times per million words; the 1,112th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Sounds like | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is tour?
Tour appears 98 times per million words in written English, the 1,112th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce tour?
- /tɔː(ɹ)/
- /tʊə(ɹ)/
- /tʉːɹ/
Tour has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-tour.ogg, En-au-tour.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with tour
Sounds like: taw, tor, tore (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with tour?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as tour.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: rout, trou.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of tour
- tours plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- touring participle, present
- toured participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does tour mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.
On our last holiday to Spain we took a tour of the wine-growing regions.
- 2
A guided visit to a particular place, or virtual place.
On the company's website, you can take a virtual tour of the headquarters.
- 3
A journey through a given list of places, such as by an entertainer performing concerts.
Metallica's tour of Europe
- 4
A trip taken to another country in which several matches are played.
- 5
A street and road race, frequently multiday.
- 6
A set of competitions which make up a championship.
- 7
A tour of duty.
- 8
A closed trail.
- 9
datedA tower.
verb
- 1
To make a journey.
The Rolling Stones were still touring when they were in their seventies.
- 2
To make a circuit of a place.
The circuses have been touring Europe for the last few weeks.
- 3
obsoleteTo toot a horn.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Tour in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | excursion, voyage, tournée , visite guidée , tour , tourner |
| German | Tour, Reise , Rundgang , Tournee |
| Portuguese | passeio , excursão, tour , turnê |
| Spanish | recorrido, tour, tournée (turné) , recorrer , gira |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does tour come from?
From Old French tour, tourn, from the verb torner, tourner.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).